Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-14
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ClEiE60& OF AIF1C3n OGBCeuC nnUbO EEuP
sE2Srty Runs Up Into SIX Figures. Etc.
New York Morning Journal.
fortune scatters her generous fsvors
without regard to race, creed or color.
frequently those who stand in the golden
rain of prosperity when its downpour is
the heaviest are not the brainiest of
;morsals, but they are usually the boldest
End nsess determined.
I The UNANIMOUSLY large fortunes in this
countr# are, Of course, possessed by
white men, but there are q number OF
negroes who have smassed considerable
fortunes and take rank as millionaires.
The coaDred race in this country, as 8
Glass, have hGd only the past twenty
years "a. which to- receive the entire
benaffs 6sstbeir wealth producing powers,
and many 81 shen have shown surpris-
Ing Capacity for the accumula ion Of
Heney and property.
Probably the most widely known Of the
wealthy colored men in this country was
al Pr s. PINCHBACK,
Who rose from waiter in New Orleans
ambling house to the Office of Lieuten-
ans Governor of LouIsians, and made
moEsY so fast that his investments rep
resented el1nost, If not quite, $1,000, 600
while ne was yet young man.
Wormley, the noted hotelkeeper OF
Washington, was worth large amount
of money when he died, and Downing,
ae colored caterer of fashionable New
sort, who offered to give his daughter 2
sarincely doWry as an inducement for re-
hspectable and eligible young white men
10 enter the lists as candidates for her
Fh&nd in marriage, so large was his fortune
The king gambler of the southwest is a
full blooded negro, and lie has been
iEnown to lose $40, 900 on the turn of 8
I.aagle card. Recently be announced his
determination to quit gambling as he had
made himself worth nearly million
dollars, and IL his statement IS to the
extent of his means was correct he WAS
certainly one of the most wealthy gam
hlers in this country.
PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE AND WASH
NGToN
FeHkSH each colored claimants for the title
of millionaire, and local authorities in
dorse their claims. Colored millionaires
in New York and Brooklyn are not
especially numerous. The only colored
man in this city who is known to have
assets which could be readily con-
yerted into q million dollars of cash,
resides in Captain Williams precinct.
He declares that he will institute q suit
for damages against any newspaper
which names him as being q millionaire,
for he mournfully declares that If ii be-
comes generally known that he was
wealthy life would become unbesrble, be-
Cause of the many applies ions to endow
colleges, schools and churches for ne
groes, and to assist less fortunate men,
bers Of his race with which he would GER
tainly be deluged. He owns houses without
number in this city, and lrefers to have
white people for tenants, snd he is said
to also hold government and first mort
gage railroad bonds to considerable ex-
tent.
A number of the colored residents OF
| this city are firmly Of the opinion that
| DIR. Phillip a. White, the colored drug
kl ist, whose store is in the shadow OF
he western approach 20 the Brooklyn
| bridge, is q full-feogsd millionaire, but
Hire always busy Doctor found time to
S. ssure the Journal reporter that this
q D mon Wes without substantial founda.
ktlon.i IS
i A LUNCH MANS FORTUNE,
i James NJ. Mars, the jals1tor re Con;
ltinental bankf building, IS rapidly attain
bog the prsad dignity of being Coz 6ered
"a mill .eassre. Some twenty ysffs 20 he
20 probably supply Staa bsnk and
other down town establtfhmk4ss,i in Waicf
there was a considerable HiI3Rer of I'M
ployes, with net mid Day sanncht and hii
venture in this diIeci2oa grew IAgidf b
such. propori ion that Ms yearly fevenu'
from it represented q srnslI fortune. a.